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Ministry of Road Transport & Highways
BHARAT NEW CAR ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued G.S.R. 472 dated 24th June 2022, whereby it has been proposed to insert a new rule 126E in CMVR , 1989 regarding the Bharat New Car Assessment Program . The following has been proposed:-
- It is applicable on Type Approved motor vehicles of category M1 [motor vehicles used for the carriage of passengers, comprising not more than eight seats, in addition to driver’s seat] with gross vehicle weight less than 3.5 Tonnes, manufactured or imported in the country, in accordance with the Automotive Industry Standard -197. The standard is aligned with global benchmarks: it is beyond minimum regulatory requirements.
- Bharat NCAP rating provides star rating to motor vehicles, which will enable consumers to evaluate the level of protection offered to occupants in motor vehicles in the fields of  Adult Occupant Protection   Child Occupant Protection  and  Safety Assist Technologies . The vehicle shall be assigned a star rating from one to five stars, based on scoring against various tests undertaken as per AIS 197.
It introduces the concept of safety rating of passenger cars and empowers consumers to take informed decisions. It will promote export worthiness of the cars produced by OEMs in the country and increase the domestic customer’s confidence in these vehicles. Additionally the program will encourage manufacturers to provide advanced safety technologies to earn higher ratings.
- The testing of vehicles for this program will be carried out at Testing Agencies, with the necessary infrastructure, referred to in Rule 126 of CMVR 1989.
- It will be implemented from the 1st day of April, 2023. Comments and suggestions on the draft notification have been solicited from all stakeholders within a period of thirty days.
There will not be any impact on Cost of small/big automobiles due to BNCAP.
If consumers buy automobiles of higher rating, number of deaths in road accidents are likely to reduce significantly. A study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , USA, indicates that frontal airbags alone can save upto 34%of lives lost due to frontal collisions. Use of side airbags alone can save upto 31%of lives lost due to side collisions.
This information was given by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
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Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
GAIL awards contract to set up one of India’s largest PEM based Green Hydrogen project
Project designed to produce around 4.3 Metric Tons of Hydrogen per day
In line with the National Hydrogen Mission, GAIL  Limited has awarded a contract to set up one of the largest Proton Exchange Membrane  Electrolyser in India. The project would be installed at GAIL’s Vijaipur Complex, in Guna District of Madhya Pradesh, and would be based on renewable power.
The Project has been designed to produce around 4.3 Metric Tons of Hydrogen per day  with a purity of about 99.999 Volume %. It is scheduled to be commissioned by November 2023. In line with the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the project has been awarded to a vendor having domestic value addition of more than 50 per cent.
Earlier, in January this year, GAIL had commenced India’s first-of-it’s-kind project of mixing Hydrogen into Natural Gas system. Hydrogen blended Natural Gas is being supplied to one of GAIL’s Joint Venture  company with HPCL- Avantika Gas Limited , which is a City Gas Distribution  company operating in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Till date, GAIL has been successful in blending upto 2%  hydrogen in natural gas in the CGD network.
Ministry of Home Affairs
Government committed to an early solution to Naga issue, says Shri Kiren Rijiju
Assures people of Nagaland to implement the solution as soon as it is reached
The Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju has appealed to the people of Nagaland to participate in the democratic process of elections.
In his message to the people of Nagaland, Shri Rijiju said that “the Union Government is sensitive about the popular sentiment of Naga people and is committed to an early solution to their issue. He assured the people of Nagaland that the Government will implement the solution as soon as it is reached.”
He has also appealed to the political and civil society groups of Nagaland to participate in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state and to withdraw their declaration to boycott the democratic process.
The Legislative Assembly election are scheduled be held on 27th February, 2018 to elect members of the 60 constituencies in Nagaland. Counting of votes is scheduled to take place on 3rd March 2018.
Ministry of Science & Technology
Importance of cooperation, collaboration & connections in science highlighted atBRICS Young Scientists Forum
Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary Department of Science and Technology and Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology highlighted the importance of cooperation, collaboration and connections for science to move forward, at the BRICS Young Scientists Forum.
“We know exactly the role S&T innovation has played over the globe to fight the potent war against the pandemic and cooperation, collaboration and connections have been important tools in the path,” she said during her inaugural address of the sixth edition of the BRICS Young Scientists Forum  organized by the Department of Science & Technology , in collaboration with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru .
DrSwarup encouraged countries to have a science driven agenda and to focus on the importance of globally common themes of translation, generation and application of knowledge. Focusing on the importance of data generation, data analysis and application, she encouraged the participation of youth in these areas and requested scientists to concentrate on precision medicine, genomic tools and biomarkers to help with early detection of key diseases. DrSwarup appealed to the global community to engage through innovation and incubation hubs for data generation, analysis and application.
Prof ShaileshNayak, Director  urged the participants to continue engaging in future interactions and networking to produce sustainable solutions and facilitate innovative transition into the future. Shri Sanjeev K Varshney, Head, International Cooperation, DST, emphasized that BRICS conclave can function as a network building opportunity among the young scientists to solve common problems. To incentivize the collaborations, he also proposed fellowships supported by the sponsors of the BRICS YSF 2021.
The forum saw the participation of 125 scientists from the different countries. The delegations from Brazil, Russia and India were headed by Mr. Carlos Matsumoto, Ms. Albina Kutuzova, and Dr. Arvind Kumar respectively the delegations from China and South Africa were headed by Ms. Li Wenjing, and Dr Stanley Maphosa.
The BRICS-YSF summits were first hosted by India in 2016, followed by China in 2017, South Africa in 2018, Brazil in 2019, and Russia in 2020. This year the four-day conclave started on 13 September 2021 would end on 16 September. The best young scientist with an idea on innovation would be awarded at the BRICS-YSF 2021. Young innovator prize has been one of the focuses of the BRICS-YSF and the award is supported by the DST, Government of India. The next conclave would be organized by China in 2022.
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Special Service and Features
KALPAKKAM IGCAR ORGANISES SWACHHTA CAMPAIGN TOMORROW AT ITS CAMPUS
Swachh Bharat Mission is an umbrella concept encompassing not just hygiene and sanitation but also Drinking water, Solar energy, Solid and Liquid waste management and recovery of useful materials from e-waste.
The idea is to bring behavioral changes in communities to practice swachhataso as to achieve sustainable development.
Ministries and Departments have been involved in Swachhata related activities and observe SwachhataPakhwada to bring in a fortnight of intense focus on Swachhta. Department of Atomic Energy is observing SwachhataPakhwada from February 16 to February 28, 2023 commemorating the discovery of ‘Raman effect’ by Sir C.V.Raman, which is observed as National Science day.
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research & General Services Organisation will be jointly observing SwachhtaPakhwada at Kalpakkam. As part of the activities, water purifiers with a capacity of 500 litres/hour are being provided to the villages and bio-toilets are being installed for the benefit of contract workers.
On 18.02.2023, collection of e-waste is arranged in DAE Township at Anupuram as a community activity. 100 children from DAE schools and Kendriya Vidyalaya & around 200 employees from IGCAR, GSO & CISF will be participating in the activity.E-waste collected will be handed over to a designated vendor specialized in handling and disposing them in an eco-friendly manner.
To create awareness about Swachhta, technological intervention to reducecreation of waste& cultivate Swachhta as a habit, street play by employees of IGCAR & GSO has been arranged inschools in Kalpakkam and Anupuram Townships. Also awareness programme highlighting the DAE technologies viz. Biogas &Biofungicide is being arranged for the school students and the neighbourhood.During the fortnight, activities like cleaning of office premises, removal of obsolete items, weeding out of old records is being taken up and various competitions like Poster, Essay & Slogan writing will be conducted for the employees. Prizes will be distributed to the winners of the competition.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
COVID-19 UPDATE
220.07 cr Total Vaccine doses  have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive
90,529 doses administered in last 24 hours
India's Active caseload currently stands at 3,468
Active cases stand at 0.01%
Recovery Rate currently at 98.8%
141 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to
4,41,43,483
188 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours
Daily positivity rate 
Weekly Positivity Rate 
91.01 cr Total Tests conducted so far; 1,34,995 tests conducted in the last 24 hours
Election Commission
Section 151A of the Representation of the People Act 1951 mandates ECI to fill casual vacancies
It is understood that some newspapers have reported that the Commission on the one hand announced the bye elections to fill the three casual vacancies in Lok Sabha from Karnataka while the bye elections to fill five vacancies in Lok Sabha from Andhra Pradesh have not been announced.
In this connection, it is to be noted that vacancies from 9-Bellary, 14-Shimoga and 20-Mandya Parliamentary Constituencies of Karnataka have occurred on 18th May, 18th May and 21st May, 2018 respectively, whereas vacancies from the five parliamentary constituencies from Andhra Pradesh have occurred on 20th June, 2018.
Section 151A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 mandates the Election Commission to fill the casual vacancies in the Houses of Parliament and State Legislatures through bye elections within six months from the date of occurrence of the vacancy, provided that the remainder of the term of a member in relation to a vacancy is one year or more.
The term of sixteenth Lok Sabha is upto 3rd June, 2019. As the vacancies from Karnataka have occurred more than one year before the expiration of the term of House, bye elections are required to be held under Section 151A of R. P. Act 1951 to fill these vacancies within six months from the date of occurrence of vacancies that is 18th& 21st May, 2018. In the case of vacancies from Andhra Pradesh, there is no need to hold bye elections as the remaining term of the Lok Sabha is less than one year from the date of occurrence of vacancies that is 20th June, 2018.
Section 151A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 is reproduced below:
151A. Time limit for filling vacancies referred to in sections 147, 149, 150 and 151.—Notwithstanding anything contained in section 147, section 149, section 150 and section 151, a bye-election for filling any vacancy referred to in any of the said sections shall be held within a period of six months from the date of the occurrence of the vacancy: Provided that nothing contained in this section shall apply if—  the remainder of the term of a member in relation to a vacancy is less than one year; or  the Election Commission in consultation with the Central Government certifies that it is difficult to hold the bye-election within the said period.
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Special Service and Features
DoT EMF Exposure Awareness Workshops
Kochi , February 09,2022
Department of Telecommunications, Kerala LSA will organize EMF Exposure Awareness Workshops for elected members and officials of the Panchayats in Palakkad and Pathanamthitta Districts on 10.02.2022 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM and on 11.02.2022 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM respectively. The workshop will be streamed live on YouTube via DoT Kerala’s official channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV3BMsb_9pSD0GEEMUkERdg. The general public is requested to view the proceedings for better knowledge dissemination. DoT, Kerala LSA has been organizing such Workshops for elected members and officials of all Panchayats, district-wise in Malayalam.
There is an immediate need for faster expansion of telecom infrastructure in the state. This calls for speedy deployment of towers to expand and improve the coverage. However, due to misconceptions and misinformation, public at some locations are apprehensive whenever a tower is proposed in a residential area. This is leading to avoidable litigation thereby delaying the rollout of telecom networks. Hence there is an acute and urgent need to create awareness about radiation from mobile towers.
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Ministry of Railways
Indian railways records best ever September Monthly freight loading of 115.80 MT
Cumulative freight loading from April-September 2022 has been 736.68 MT, showing a growth of 10.14 % over same period last year
Indian railways has recorded best ever September Monthly freight loading of 115.80 MT in Sep’22. The incremental loading in the month of September has been 9.7 MT i.e. a growth of 9.15% over the previous best September figures achieved in 2021.With this, Indian Railways has had 25straight months of best ever monthly freight loading.
The Railways has achieved an incremental loading of 6.8 MT in Coal, followed by 1.2 in Iron Ore and 1.22 MT in Balance other goods, 0.4 MT in Cement & Clinker and 0.3 MT in Fertilizers. Increase in automobile loading has been another highlight of Freight Business in FY 2022-23 and 2712 rakes have been loaded in FY 2022-23 till September as compared to 1575 rakes during the same period of last year i.e. a growth of 72.2 %.
The cumulative freight loading from 1st April’2022 to 30th September’2022 has been 736.68 MT as against 668.86 MT achieved in 2021-22 i.e. an incremental loading of 67.83 MT, with a growth of 10.14 % over same period last year.The freight NTKMs  have increased from 63.43 Billion in September ’21 to 69.97 Billion in September’22 registering a growth of 10.3 %. The cumulative NTKMs in the first Half of the year have also grown by 17.1 %.
The sustained efforts of Indian Railways to increase supply of Coal to Power houses, in close coordination with Ministries of Power and Coal, has again been one of the key features of the freight performance in the month of September. The loading of Coal  to Power Houses has increased by 6.2 MT in September,with 42.00 MT Coal being moved to Power houses as against 35.8 MT last year, i.e. a growth of 17.3%. Cumulatively, in the first Half of the year, IR has loaded more than 64.53 MT extra coal to Power Houses as compared to same period of last year, with a growth of more than 29.3%.
The commodity wise growth number show that IR has achieved impressive growth in almost all commodity segments with the following growth rates :
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Coal
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6.8
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14
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Cement and Clinker
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0.4
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3.4
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POL
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0.29
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8.19
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Fertilizer
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0.33
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7.9
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Containers 
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0.09
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6.15
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Balance Other Goods
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1.2
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14.1
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Iron ore
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1.2
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10.8
Ministry of Science & Technology
India International Science Festival  outreach programme and 76th CSIR Foundation Day celebrated at NEERI, Nagpur on 26th September
CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute  organised India International Science Festival  outreach programme and 76th CSIR Foundation Day celebration on 26th September, 2018.
Hon’ble Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Hansraj Ahir was the Chief Guest and Dr. Rajan Welukar, Vice-Chancellor, GH Raisoni University was the Guest of Honour.
While addressing the audience, Shri Ahir said that though CSIR-NEERI has significantly contributed but expectations are still high looking at the worsening environmental problems. The Institute has a big responsibility to provide clean air and clean water to the people.
Expressing concern over the disasters, the Minister said in the recent monsoon season, floods and landslides have affected thousands of people across. We need to find out some effective solutions, he added.
He also expressed concern over ever increasing environmental problems related to chemicals and fertilizers. He also lauded the efforts of our Prime Minister for improving the work culture. He opined that CSIR-NEERI should have been utilized to the fullest extent possible for solving environmental problems in the country. He said that people are leaving rural areas to better live in the city which is a major concern. We need to create conducive environment in rural areas, he added. He applauded the initiatives of CSIR-NEERI to reach the masses through outreach programmes.
Dr. Welukar expressed concern over environmental degradation. He stated the roles of various institutions to ensure growth and development of the country. He advised the scientists to more focus on ‘FEW’, i.e. Food, Energy, Water. He advised that everyone should know big data and how to use it to determine the risks on environment. He also advocated that we need to understand our society so that proper care can be taken.
Earlier, Dr. Rakesh Kumar informed that the Institute has been working on rejuvenation of water bodies and control of air pollution. He listed some of the recent achievements of the Institute.
The Hon’ble Minister Shri Hansraj Ahir inaugurated the first extension centre of Centre for Strategic Urban Management  to be set up in Delhi on this occasion.
The Institute remained open for general public including students. Approximately 2500 students visited the Institute. Science Models Exhibition-cum-Competition on environmental science & engineering for school-students was organized. The Institute will showcase its scientific achievements and research facilities to students and the general public. The institution will open its labs to the common public and organize exhibitions, scientist-student-public interactions, popular lectures, etc.
Science Models Competition was organized on this occasion. Winners of various competition got attractive prizes.
The mementos were presented to the CSIR-NEERI employees on their completion of 25 years of service in CSIR.
Dr. J.S. Pandey Mr. Prakash Kumbhare and other senior officers were present to the function.
Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot leaves for Seoul  to attend the 3rd ASEM  Conference on ‘Global Ageing and Human Rights of Older Persons’
Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot, Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment left for Seoul  yesterday. He is heading a 3-member Indian Delegation to attend the 3rd ASEM  Conference on ‘Global Ageing and Human Rights of Older Persons’ jointly organised in Seoul during 5th to 7th September, 2018 by the Republic of Korea and the National Human Rights Commission of Korea.
The 3-day Conference will reaffirm the universal value of the human rights of older persons, share information on discrimination against the elderly and exemplary cases of long-term and palliative care in Asia and Europe, and also discuss operation and tasks of the ASEM Global Ageing Centre as an implementing institution for mutual cooperation among ASEM members for the protection and promotion of the human rights of older persons.
The Conference will be attended by International Institutions including the United Nations, Regional Institutions such as UNESCAP, UNECE, European Union, ASEAN, GANHRI and also International NGOs, Experts etc. The experience gained from the Conference will be beneficial for Policy formulation and implementation for welfare of senior citizens.
Department of Atomic Energy
Tata Memorial Centre  to train Cancer Patient Navigators of Indonesia
On the World Health Day, TMC inks Partnership Agreement with Dharmais National Cancer Hospital Indonesia and PT Roche Indonesia
Mumbai, 7th April 2022
Tata Memorial Centre  signed a Partnership Agreement of Cancer Patient Navigation Program to improve cancer care in Indonesia, in Mumbai, on the World Health Day today . The MoU was signed with Dharmais National Cancer Hospital and PT Roche Indonesia, virtually.
‘Patient navigation’ is individualized assistance offered to patients, families, and caregivers to help overcome healthcare system barriers.
Director, TMC, Dr .Rajendra Badwe said that in spite of the easy access and quality of cancer care available there exists a problem in compliance of the treatment. He explained that surveys conducted by TMC and Tata Institute of Social Sciences  have revealed that meeting the economic, emotional, psychological, social and cultural needs of a patient are as important for positive results in the treatment. This role is played by the ‘Navigators’
Such a Cancer Patient Navigator  does not exist in Indonesia at present. Against this backdrop the MoU signed by TMC assumes significance.
Indian Ambassador to Indonesia, Manoj Kumar Bharti said that this MoU is yet another milestone in the India-Indonesia relationship. “This is very timely when Indonesia holds the G20 Presidency and ‘Health’ is one of the three main pillars of its focus area,” he added.
Applauding the efforts of TMC and other cancer care centres, Indian Ambassador to ASEAN, Jayant Khobragade said “Most of the cancer patients remain actual contributors to the nation’s growth and thus it is a service to the nation. Extending their life span is a huge service to the humanity,”
TMC offers KEVAT- a one-year Advanced Post Graduate Diploma Programm in Navigation in Oncology. It has collaborated with TISS, which provides education in psycho-social aspects of care while TMC renders training in clinical aspects. The Diploma is offered jointly by TMC and TISS.
The same program has been customized to meet the Indonesian requirements. The training intensive program for Indonesia features learning through a hybrid learning model that combines online tutorial, practical training at TMC, followed with practical training in participating hospitals under the supervision of experts. After the successful completion of the program the students will be conferred with a joint diploma from TMC & TISS.
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